]]>Anatomy of Desire: New Work by Sarah Allen Eagen opens in New Yorkhttp://www.steelbananas.com/blog/anatomy-of-desire-new-work-by-sarah-allen-eagen-opens-in-new-york/
Thu, 05 Feb 2015 21:49:36 +0000http://www.steelbananas.com/blog/?p=1982NEW YORK: Head out to Chashama 461 Gallery and Studio this upcoming Valentine's day (or really, any day after that until March 1st) to see new work by Sarah Allen Eagen, one of the amazing artists included in our artist folio #CDNART: Curran Folkers in Conversation with Ten Contemporary Artists in Canada. We love Sarah's work and →]]>NEW YORK: Head out to Chashama 461 Gallery and Studio this upcoming Valentine's day (or really, any day after that until March 1st) to see new work by Sarah Allen Eagen, one of the amazing artists included in our artist folio #CDNART: Curran Folkers in Conversation with Ten Contemporary Artists in Canada. We love Sarah's work and you will too!
]]>N.A.A. @ 8-Eleven Gallery w/ the Blatantistshttp://www.steelbananas.com/blog/n-a-a-8-eleven-gallery-w-the-blatantists/
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 21:45:20 +0000http://www.steelbananas.com/blog/?p=1979TORONTO: Our N. Alexander Armstrong will be reading new writing and distributing a zine at 8-Eleven gallery tonight. It's also a meeting to flush out blatantism and its vicissitudes, which should be fun. Facebook event and more info here. →]]>TORONTO: Our N. Alexander Armstrong will be reading new writing and distributing a zine at 8-Eleven gallery tonight. It's also a meeting to flush out blatantism and its vicissitudes, which should be fun. Facebook event and more info here.
]]>Art’s Birthday: Karen Correia da Silva is one of 18 artists featured in an international generative audio stream of La Monte Young’s “Composition 1960 #7”http://www.steelbananas.com/blog/arts-birthday-karen-correia-da-silva-featured-in-an-international-generative-audio-stream/
Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:31:15 +0000http://www.steelbananas.com/blog/?p=1971Don't forget to celebrate Art's Birthday tomorrow! As part of this year's festivities, our Director Karen Correia da Silva is part of a collaborative generative audio stream of La Monte Young's "Composition 1960 #7" with seventeen other artists from around the globe. This audio stream is a performance of La Monte Young's piece Composition 1960 #7. →]]>Don't forget to celebrate Art's Birthday tomorrow! As part of this year's festivities, our Director Karen Correia da Silva is part of a collaborative generative audio stream of La Monte Young's "Composition 1960 #7" with seventeen other artists from around the globe. This audio stream is a performance of La Monte Young's piece Composition 1960 #7. Artists at different locations around the world recorded the piece on a variety of instruments. The combined sounds are re-sequenced in software to create an endless audio stream/ an ever changing version of the piece. Listen on NoiseArtRadio at the link below. Thanks to Peter Courtemanche, the Western Front Society artist-run centre, and Kunstradio Austria for supporting the network! Happy Art's Birthday! LISTEN HERE: http://www.artsbirthday.net/2015/lmyvii/

"Art's Birthday" is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou.

He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Modest beginnings, but look at us now.

Filliou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. In recent years, the idea has been taken up by a loose network of artists and friends around the world. Each year the Eternal Network evolves to include new partners - working with the ideas of exchange and telecommunications-art.

Artists have celebrated Art's Birthday with lavish parties and gatherings, correspondence and mailart, and through Telematic networks using SloScan TV, Videophones, music composed for telephone lines, modem-to-modem MIDI connections, early bulletin board and chat systems, and (starting in the mid 1990's) the Internet.

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Da Nutcracker & Da Rat Bastard, or Sophia’s Dream: A Holiday Farce at the White House Studio Project in Kensington Markethttp://www.steelbananas.com/blog/da-nutcracker-da-rat-bastard-or-sophias-dream-a-holiday-farce-at-the-white-house-studio-project-in-kensington-market/
Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:30:18 +0000http://www.steelbananas.com/blog/?p=1967Congrats to our very own Neal Alexander Armstrong and Devon Marinac for two incredible nights of Da Nutcracker & Da Rat Bastard, or Sophia's Dream: A Holiday Farce at The White House Studio Project in Toronto! Cheers to Mike Armstrong for the photo. →]]>Congrats to our very own Neal Alexander Armstrong and Devon Marinac for two incredible nights of Da Nutcracker & Da Rat Bastard, or Sophia's Dream: A Holiday Farce at The White House Studio Project in Toronto! Cheers to Mike Armstrong for the photo.

]]>We are officially SOLD OUT of Anna Veprinska’s artist book Sew with Butterflieshttp://www.steelbananas.com/blog/we-are-officially-sold-out-of-anna-veprinskas-artist-book-sew-with-butterflies/
Wed, 03 Dec 2014 21:42:06 +0000http://www.steelbananas.com/blog/?p=1976We are very pleased to announce that we are officially entirely SOLD OUT of Anna Veprinska's artist book of poetry and photography Sew with Butterflies. As anyone who ordered from us knows, each book is shipped with a hand written thank you card. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who ordered it →]]>

We are very pleased to announce that we are officially entirely SOLD OUT of Anna Veprinska's artist book of poetry and photography Sew with Butterflies. As anyone who ordered from us knows, each book is shipped with a hand written thank you card. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who ordered it and to Anna for writing such a beautiful artist book. Excelsior!

]]>Four SB artists/writers performing at the Urban Gallery’s year-end Poetry Salonhttp://www.steelbananas.com/blog/four-sb-artistswriters-performing-at-the-urban-gallerys-year-end-poetry-salon/
Wed, 03 Dec 2014 21:17:33 +0000http://www.steelbananas.com/blog/?p=1957Cheers to a wonderful night at Toronto's Urban Gallery for their year-end Poetry Salon. Pictured among the readers are our two assistant editors Neal Alexander Shroobacca Armstrong and Anna Veprinska, along with two authors Dave Hurlow and Adam Abbas. The other wonderful readers pictured here are Nyla Matuk, Rasiqra Revulva, and Areta M. Kudos to →]]>Cheers to a wonderful night at Toronto's Urban Gallery for their year-end Poetry Salon. Pictured among the readers are our two assistant editors Neal Alexander Shroobacca Armstrong and Anna Veprinska, along with two authors Dave Hurlow and Adam Abbas. The other wonderful readers pictured here are Nyla Matuk, Rasiqra Revulva, and Areta M. Kudos to Adam for organising the event! Thanks to Brenda Clews for the photo.

]]>Dave Hurlow reviews Michael Winter’s Into the Blizzard for the Town Crierhttp://www.steelbananas.com/blog/dave-hurlow-reviews-michael-winters-into-the-blizzard-for-the-town-crier/
Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:23:53 +0000http://www.steelbananas.com/blog/?p=1964In case you missed it: Dave Hurlow (Hate Letters from Buddhists, 2014) on Michael Winter's Into the Blizzard for The Puritan's blog. →]]>In case you missed it: Dave Hurlow (Hate Letters from Buddhists, 2014) on Michael Winter's Into the Blizzard for The Puritan's blog.
]]>Adam Abbas at the Art Bar November 25th!http://www.steelbananas.com/blog/adam-abbas-at-the-art-bar-november-25th/
Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:14:23 +0000http://www.steelbananas.com/blog/?p=1952Adam Abbas (A State, A Statue, A Statute, 2014) will be reading at the Art Bar Poetry Series in Toronto on November 25th. Check out other readers and RSVP on the Art Bar Facebook event here. →]]>

Adam Abbas (A State, A Statue, A Statute, 2014) will be reading at the Art Bar Poetry Series in Toronto on November 25th. Check out other readers and RSVP on the Art Bar Facebook event here.